AirPort Express link to Belkin Router

This has probably been answered before somewhere, but anyway here goes...
I have a PC. It does NOT have a wireless card.
I bought a Belkin wireless Router
It is connected via an ethernet cable to the PC.
I want to use an AirPort express as a client to allow me to play music from iTunes in other places in the house.
I have not been able to get the AirPort Express to connect as a client.
I have been on the phone to Belkin for 1 hour. They appear unable to help me.
Anyone in this forum able to shed some light on how to do this? I have entered the MAC address of the AirPort express in the Router set-up and tried diabling the my firewall, but still nothing.
Please help me!
Compaq   Windows XP  

Ensure that the PC is connected to the LAN port of the Belkin router and not the WAN port.
Is the Belkin router using WEP?
One of the problems with WEP is that the actual standard relies on a 10 character HEX key for 40bit WEP and a 26 character HEX key for 128bit WEP.
In order to make things easier for people, vendors use certain algorithms to convert simple alphanumeric passwords (or passphrases) into HEX keys, thus enabling people to use simple memorable WEP password rather than lengthy HEX keys.
The problem is that different vendors use different algorithms to generate the HEX key and therefore a ASCII password on an AEBS will be hashed differently on a Netgear client and vice versa.
One thing is a 13 character 128 bit WEP password will be hashed by all vendors in the same way (if you use 40bit WEP then a 5 character password is required).
Though sometimes not even that works and the HEX key must be used regardless.
AirPort: Joining an encrypted wireless network
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106424
Choosing a password for networks that use Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108058
I wouldn't worry about using MAC Address access control as this will just confuse the issue and doesn't in fact add any security.
iFelix

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